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| 54,200 newspaper, magazine jobs axed since 2003 |
| 2014-06-19 |
| [WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The decade-long devastation of the print news business, crushed by the sagging economy, the evaporation of classified and display advertising, and a reader shift to digital media, has cost at least 54,200 newsroom jobs in newspapers and magazines alone, according to Pew Research. That figure, buried in a new Harvard University ...home of the Best and the Brightest, contributed $878,164 to the 2008 Obama campaign. Is there a reason universities are among the top financiers of political campaigns? study about the troubles non-traditional news hounds have getting congressional, White House and other official press passes to cover news events, is the highest calculation of job losses in American journalism yet. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 It was the loss of the classifieds, that was a fat, fat, fat margin. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-06-19 17:17 |
| #3 One can blame a whole mess of factors. Consolidation of the media industry, the industry's near-total reliance on the news-source monopoly known as the Associated Press, etc. There's software out that will allow a bot to both gather information and place it into a selected template, writing the article. Not much different than the current 'journalist' and certainly a lot less expensive to maintain. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-06-19 10:42 |
| #2 ...probably the newly funded (I have a phone and I have a pen) Ministry of Truth(copyright 1984). |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-06-19 09:03 |
| #1 Did the Harvard study include the fact that most people have had it with the liberal wienies and all their bloviating in support of the One? Also, most of us don't trust the MSM as far as they can spit into a high wind. So where are these clowns going to work? In the White House? |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2014-06-19 00:21 |